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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 55-year-old antheral from Fresno, who is simply a erstwhile registered enactment offender has been indicted for allegedly receiving kid pornography, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DOJ says a national expansive assemblage returned an indictment connected Thursday against Darren Kieth Sever, 55, of Fresno, charging him with receipt of kid pornography.
According to tribunal documents, betwixt April 4 and June 4 of this year, Sever received 1 ocular deception of children engaged successful sexually explicit conduct.
The DOJ says Sever has a anterior condemnation that required him to registry arsenic a enactment offender up until April 17 of this year.
If convicted, the DOJ says Sever tin look a maximum statutory punishment of up to 15 years successful situation and up to a $250,000 fine.
The DOJ adds that immoderate sentence, however, would beryllium determined astatine the discretion of the tribunal aft information of immoderate applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which instrumentality into relationship a fig of variables. The charges are lone allegations; the suspect is presumed guiltless until and unless proven blameworthy beyond a tenable doubt.
